A protest against rapes by so-called Muslim refugees. |
Nor is it only Cologne. That was just Ground Zero of the New Year’s Eve
rape jihad in Germany. As National Review’s Ian Tuttle notes in an alarming
column about the predictable — and, if I may say, predicted — surge of sexual assault
in a Europe overrun by “so-called Muslim refugees” now widely known as
Rapefugees the jihad included similar episodes, albeit on a smaller scale, in
Stuttgart, Hamburg, and even astride the Brandenburg gate in Berlin.
We are finally learning about the
magnitude and harrowing details of the attack after days of Stasi-like
information suppression. Chancellor Angela Merkel (a closet Socialist from
former GDR) may not be big on German security, but she is a bulwark when it
comes to fantasy Islam.
First there was no news; then, a few
disturbing hints of gropings and robberies by gangs of “Middle Eastern or North
African” men. Now, we know it was a mass atrocity — the only remaining question
being: How massive?
Upward of a thousand men, overwhelmingly Muslim, executed a coordinated
series of attacks on an obvious target of opportunity: street celebrations in
the major cities of a reviled Western state, where they were certain to find
throngs of young women and a police presence grossly inadequate to provide
security — certainly not against a critical mass of Islamic supremacists.
The participation of Muslim migrants in
the rape jihad is, of course, the fact most desperately suppressed by German
officials. Mrs. Merkel earned her “Person of the Year” honors from left-leaning
relic Time magazine by rolling out the red carpet for a staggering 1.1 million
migrants in 2015 — infuriating the German public and spurring the migrant
tsunami now washing over neighboring countries.
In this information clampdown and total
news blackout, the nightmare of the victimized women turns out to be the
chancellor’s good fortune: Police on the scene were so outnumbered and
outmaneuvered by the assailants that it was physically impossible for them to
get near most of the women being savaged, much less make arrests. Most of the
perps will never be identified.
The media are already using this to cast doubt on migrant culpability.
“It was not clear,” the pro-left New York Times opaquely explains, “that any of
the men involved were among those who arrived in Germany over the past year
from conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.” Sure. In southern
Germany, after two teenage girls (ages 14 and 15) were raped, police tripped
over themselves to announce that the three Syrians arrested were not recently
arrived asylum seekers. What a relief.
Nearly 200 women have filed criminal
complaints in Cologne, the vast majority charging all manner of sexual assault.
There have been few arrests, though, and nearly none involving sex crimes.
Socialist woman mayor of Cologne blamed
young German women victims and urged them
to cover up and avoid going out at night.
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By the time “help” reaches one victim,
the assailants have moved on to the next. It is not very effective law
enforcement . . . but at least the cops can’t be accused of “Islamophobia,”
right? Europe is not Nigeria — not yet.
In the regressing advanced world,
nothing on the scale of the New Year’s Eve siege can happen without tweets and
pictures filtering out. Try as they might, German officials have been unable to
put a lid on accounts from police explaining that “the large majority” of
assailants they were able to identify were “from Syria,” or observing that
“there were thousands of people who could not be specifically identified but
who had an immigrant background, and were most probably refugees.”
Truth being the first casualty of war, it was left to Henriette Reker, the fantasy Islam–drenched mayor of Cologne, to blame the victims for their ordeal. Such assaults could be prevented, she declaimed, if German women adopted a “code of conduct” tailored to the new, multi-culti Deutschland.
Truth being the first casualty of war, it was left to Henriette Reker, the fantasy Islam–drenched mayor of Cologne, to blame the victims for their ordeal. Such assaults could be prevented, she declaimed, if German women adopted a “code of conduct” tailored to the new, multi-culti Deutschland.
In the spirit of multiculturalism, I
have such a code just off the shelf (on which rests The Grand Jihad, in which I
outlined it a few years back). It goes like this: To be absolved from guilt,
the raped woman must have shown some sort of good conduct . . . Islam addresses
women to maintain their modesty, so as not to open the door for evil . . . The
Koran calls on Muslim women in general to preserve their dignity and modesty,
just to save themselves from any harassment. So for a rape victim to be
absolved from guilt, she must not be the one that opens . . . her dignity for
deflowering.
These pearls of wisdom come from none
other than Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s renowned sharia
jurist. He proclaimed them on his popular IslamOnline website about a dozen
years ago, right before he was welcomed into Britain — as a trustee of the
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies — despite his fatwas supporting Hamas suicide
attacks in Israel and terrorism against Western troops in Iraq.
Though he resides in Qatar, Qaradawi currently heads the Ireland-based
European Council for Fatwa and Research. Qaradawi is the most influential
Muslim intellectual behind the strategy of, as he puts it, “conquering” Europe
and America by “dawa” — the aggressive proselytism of Islamic mores.
The plan calls for flooding the West with Muslim migrants, directing
them to resist assimilation, establishing Islamic enclaves, and pressuring the
host country to concede the enclave’s right to govern itself in accordance with
sharia — Islam’s societal framework and legal code.
As I’ve previously explained, when
Muslims are seeking conquest, Islamic scripture endorses sexual assault as a
weapon to establish their dominance. “O Prophet,” Allah is said to have
announced (in the Koran’s sura 33:50), “We have made lawful to thee thy wives
to whom thou has paid their dowers, and those whom thy right hand possesses out
of the captives of war whom Allah has assigned to thee.”
In the Western ministries of fantasy
Islam, the pols and their note-takers will thumb their chins and wonder what
could possibly have motivated the German attacks — just as they wonder what
could possibly explain the European sexual-assault crisis that has, by some
mysterious coincidence, coincided with mass Muslim migration.
The rest of us will know that there is
a strategy: conquest. Just as in the Middle East, women and girls in the West
are the spoils of jihad, the vehicle for intimidating non-Muslims into
surrendering sovereignty over the streets. If they want to be safe, Sheikh
Qaradawi warns, they must submit to Islam’s sartorial suffocation. If not,
well, they have it coming.
By the way, since President Obama
entered office, the United States has issued over 100,000 green cards per year
to migrants from Muslim-majority countries. That’s just green cards — it
doesn’t count the thousands of visas issued to students, tourists, and
temporary workers. With the Republican-controlled Congress fully funding the
effort, the government is on pace to award another 680,000 green cards to
Muslim migrants — with their entitlement to lifetime residency, federal
benefits, and a path to citizenship — in the next five years.
As Sheikh Qaradawi and Mayor Reker
might say, I’m sure it won’t be a problem . . . as long as the women “maintain
their modesty.” —
(Andrew C. McCarthy is a policy fellow at the National Review Institute.
His latest book is Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s
Impeachment.)
Related posts at following links:
1,000+ Muslim Men Grope and Rape Young German Women on Cologne NYE
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Related posts at following links:
1,000+ Muslim Men Grope and Rape Young German Women on Cologne NYE
Cologne Socialist Mayor Blames Women Victims For NYE Muslim Rapes